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Qui nasqui de la vierge, que ses corps n'enpira, 



Et qui morut en crois, on le crucifia, 



Que ja li fruis de moi de mon corps n'istera, 



Si m'en ares menee ou pais par dela, 



Pour avanchier le veu que vo corps voue a. 



Et s'il en voelh isir, quant besoins n'en sera, 



D'un grand coutel d'achier li miens corps s'ochira ; 



Serai m'asme perdue et li fruis perira.' . . . 



Adonc, quant che fu fait, li rois s'apareilla, 



Et fit garnir les nes, la roine i entra, 



Et maint franc chevalier avecques lui mena. 



De illoec en Anvers li rois ne s'arreta. 



Quant outre sont venu, la dame delivra ; 



D'un biau fils gracieux la dame s'acouka, 



Lyon d'Anvers ot non quant on le baptisa. 



Ensi le franque dame le sien veu aquitta.^'' 



The theory we have sketched concerning the source of Prince 

 Lionel's name derives an added platisibihty when considered in 

 the hght of his title, Duke of Clarence. It has usually been sup- 

 posed that this title was derived from the possessions of Lionel's 

 first wife, Elizabeth, at Clare in Suffolk, ^"^ her uncle having been 

 Gilbert, Earl of Clare and Gloucester. Thus Sandford'^'^ : 'Duke 

 of Clarence, as it were of the Country about the Town, Castle 

 and Honour of Clare. '^^ 



The matter is complicated by the existence in the Middle Ages 

 of a town called Clarentza^^® (Glarentza), on the coast of Elis, 



^^ On April i6, 1358, the Dauphin Charles, afterwards Charles V, pays 

 for the repair of a piece of tapestry, representing the vow of the heron 

 {panni land ad ymagines super voto Hardee), which had been torn in 

 his room by a favorite bear (Delachenal i. 64). 



^' See pp. 91 ff . 



^' P. 222. Sandford says that Clarencieux king-at-arms, being provin- 

 cial herald for the region south of the Trent, was named from this duchy. 



"So Diet. Nat. Biog. 2,2>- 336; Paris 4. 77; Hardyng, Chroniele, ed. 

 Ellis, p. 323. 



^ Cf. Leake, Travels in tJie Morea 2. 173-4 : 'Glarentza, softened by the 

 Italians into Chiarenza, once gave name to a Venetian duchy. ... It 

 is now only a desert harbor, where some rocks furnish a retreat for boats. 

 There can be no doubt that Glarentza is the ancient Cyllene.' Other 

 particulars are given by Longnon (Chronique de Moree, pp. XCIX-CI) : 

 'Glarentza was the port of Andravida, the capital of the principality of 

 Achaia, and distant from it three leagues to the westward. The Franks 

 created the new seaport (now filled up) on the site of the earlier St. 

 Zacharia, and named it from the clear waters issuing from the fountain 



